LINSCHOTEN'S REPORT ad. 



1584. 



being never heard of againe : but it is thought they 



arrived in Aleppo, as some say, but they know not 



certainely. Their greatest hope was that John Newbery 



could speake the Arabian tongue, which is used in all ^^^ Arabian 



those countreys, or at the least understood ; for it is very ^^^^^^ g^^^^'f^ 



•', ' , , , ^ ... J in the East. 



common in all places there abouts, as l^rench with us. 



Newes being come to Goa, there was a great stirre and 



murmuring among the people, and we much woondered 



at it : for many were of opinion, that we had given them 



counsell so to do : and presently their surety seised upon 



the goods remaining, which might amount unto above 



two hundred pardawes ; and with that and the money 



he had received of the English men, he went unto the 



Viceroy, and delivered it unto him : which the Viceroy 



having received, forgave him the rest. This flight of the 



English men grieved the Jesuites most, because they had 



lost such a praye, which they made sure account of: 



whereupon the Dutch Jesuite came to us to aske us if 



we knew thereof, saying, that if he had suspected so 



much, he would have dealt otherwise, for that he sayd, 



he once had in his hands of theirs a bagge wherein was 



forty thousand veneseanders (ech veneseander being two [II. i. 268.] 



pardawes) which was when they were in prison. And 



that they had alwayes put him in comfort to accomplish 



his desire : upon the which promise he gave them their 



money againe, which otherwise they should not so lightly 



have come by, or peradventure never, as he openly sayd : 



and in the end he called them hereticks, and spies, with a 



thousand other railing speeches, which he uttered against 



them. The English man that was become a Jesuite, hearing 



that his companions were gone, and perceiving that the 



Jesuites shewed him not so great favour, neither used him 



so well as they did at the first, repented himselfe ; and 



seeing he had not as then made any solemne promise, and 



being counselled to leave the house, and tolde that he 



could not want a living in the towne, as also that the 



Jesuites could not keepe him there without he were 



willing to stay, so they could not accuse him of any thing, 



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